Because the conflict enters its 914th day, these are the primary developments.
Right here is the scenario on Tuesday, August 27, 2024.
Preventing
- At the very least seven folks had been killed and 47 injured, together with 4 kids, as Russia focused Ukraine’s power infrastructure throughout 15 areas with waves of drones and missiles, inflicting extreme harm and disrupting provides. Russia confirmed the assaults, which it stated focused amenities supporting the military-industrial complicated.
- Mykola Oleshchuk, Ukraine’s Air Drive commander, stated the nation’s forces introduced down 102 of the 127 missiles and 99 of the 109 drones Russia launched. He known as the assault “probably the most large” since Russia started its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
- Poland stated that an object, in all probability a drone, had entered its airspace in the course of the Russian bombardment, and should have come down on Polish territory.
- United States President Joe Biden condemned what he known as an “outrageous assault” and reiterated his nation’s “unshakable” help for Kyiv.
- At the very least one particular person was killed and 4 injured after a Russian missile struck a constructing within the central Ukraine metropolis of Kryvyi Rih, Oleksandr Vilkul, head of Kryvyi Rih’s navy administration stated. 5 folks had been nonetheless regarded as trapped within the rubble.
- The Reuters information company stated its journalist Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey was in a crucial situation in hospital after a missile hit a Kramatorsk resort the place he was staying with a crew of six folks from Reuters. Security adviser Ryan Evans was additionally killed within the assault, whereas one other journalist, Daniel Peleschuk, was handled for his accidents in hospital and discharged. The three others had been protected.
- Russia stated it struck Ukrainian forces in not less than 12 completely different locations in its Kursk area with air strikes, artillery and infantry. Moscow stated it additionally repelled assaults at seven extra locations in Kursk, the place Kyiv launched a shock cross-border assault on August 6. It added that it had additionally struck Ukrainian forces at 16 different places in Ukraine’s neighbouring Sumy area.
- The director common of the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, stated he would personally lead the mission to examine the Kursk nuclear energy plant in Russia throughout a go to on Tuesday, noting the “severe scenario”.
- Native officers in Russia’s Saratov area stated 4 folks had been injured within the cities of Saratov and Engels in a Ukrainian drone assault. Engels is the situation of a navy airfield that Ukraine has focused earlier than.
Politics and diplomacy
- Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned the conflict in Ukraine, the White Home stated in a press release. Modi visited Kyiv final week within the first go to by an Indian chief to Ukraine because the nation acquired its independence in 1991. Modi posted on-line that he “reiterated India’s full help for early return of peace and stability”.
- A Russian courtroom stated the trial of Laurent Vinatier, a French citizen accused of unlawfully gathering data on navy points, will begin on September 3. If convicted, Vinatier faces as much as 5 years in jail. The researcher for the Geneva-based NGO Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue was arrested in June.
- Russia was the one member of the United Nations Safety Council to skip a casual assembly in Switzerland throughout which the 14 members current reiterated their dedication to worldwide humanitarian legislation. Russia’s envoy in New York described the assembly as a “waste of time”.
Weapons
- Ukraine says it has developed a brand new long-range weapon – the Palianytsia – to strike deep into Russia. Minister of Defence Rustem Umerov stated it might present “solutions” to a wave of Russian bombings.
